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with smokeless fuel burned on approved appliances and have no
complaints of fume emission.
Co-operation with other Authorities
The Council continued to co-operate with other Local Authorities
in dealing with air pollution problems. If any progress is to
be made in this field, it seems essential that any local activities
should form part of a wider scheme.
The Council is represented at the Standing Conference of
Co-operating Bodies for Atmospheric Pollution, of which your
Chief Public Health Inspector is Chairman. This is a conference
of all the authorities and organisations which join with the
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in the measurement
of solid and gaseous pollution of the air.
Two meetings of another conference took place during the
year. This was a conference of neighbouring Local Authorities
and provided an opportunity for discussing common problems
arising from the implementation of the Clean Air Act. Representatives
of fuel suppliers were present at the meetings so that
questions of delivery delays could be dealt with expeditiously.
Industrial Smoke
The work to reduce the smoke emitted from industrial premises
has continued with some success.. Seven notifications were
received during the year of new furnace installations, all of
which were to be oil fired.
Whilst this trend may reduce the amount of smoke and grit
discharged into the atmosphere, it does nothing to reduce the
Pollution by sulphur oxides and sulphuric acid. At the present
stage of scientific knowledge it is not practicable to remove
sulphur compounds from solid or liquid fuels or economically to
rewove them from flue gases.
It is essential therefore to ensure that with every fuel burning
installation there is a chimney to disperse flue gases at a
sufficient height to prevent dangerous concentrations at ground
level.
By virtue of Section 10 of the Clean Air Act, the Local
Authority have power to control the height of any chimney